Notable Brazilian Nationals of Ukrainian Ethnicity
- Maria Berushko - teacher, may become the first Orthodox saint in South America (of Orthodox Ukrainian descent).
- Héctor Babenco - film director, screenwriter, producer, actor (Naturalized Brazilian, born in Argentina to Ukrainian father and Polish-Jewish mother).
- Oxana Narozniak - sculptor (born in Germany of Ukrainian descent, living in Curitiba)
- Vira Vovk - poetess (born in Ukraine and emigrated to Brazil after World War II)
- Rafael Sóbis - soccer striker
- Roberto Minczuk - conductor, born in Brazil of Ukrainian origin (New York Philharmonic) is probably the most notable today's Ukrainian Brazilian in the music field. Pan Minczuk has won many prestigious awards and prizes. At the recommendation of Kurt Masur, he received the 2000 Martin E. Segal Award as one of Lincoln Center's most promising young artists. Other awards include the 1997 Revelation of the Year Award, given to the most outstanding young artist by the Performing Arts Critics Association in São Paulo, and the 1991 Moinho Santista Youth Prize (the most important prize in Brazil), awarded in various disciplines for extraordinary achievement in a chosen field. Is the music director of the OSB, the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra and the Calgary Philharmonic CPO
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